Definition of "lern"

Remember to come home, we're having prime rib and scalloped potatoes in the dining room, then we'll go out on da patio to dance, they're having a Mariachi Band from Spain, ya can show us your new steps ya lernt from dat fatty, Dixie Doolittle.

2012 August 27, Anne McNicholas, Thank You Jesus: A Funny Book‎, AuthorHouse, page 179

But to be mitey fine at any of them things, ya gotta take the senses the good Lord giv ya an put em together with the skills ya lern over time, an do things right.

2017 April 28, David L. Miller, A Travelerz Trew Tale: My Journey with Lewis & Clark: Daniel Mueller September, 1837‎, Dog Ear Publishing, page 6